Originally Posted by notabook

Even using tools like eraser, the data is probably still recoverable, but not by ?normal? means. It?s going to require a clean room at a minimum and magnetic resonance scanning. But as long as 99% of the Joe Blows out there can?t get your data, I guess its good enough. On any critical data I remove the platter and destroy it thoroughly, though I?ve only had to do that once :P